ص ر ف Root ṣ-r-f in the Qur’an 30 occurrences in 29 verses

Words from this root

Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.

صَرَفَ 14 times

• 3:152 · Ali 'Imranصَرَفَكُمْ He diverted youAnd Allah had certainly fulfilled His promise to you when you were killing the enemy by His permission until [the time] when you lost courage and fell to disputing about the order [given by the Prophet] and disobeyed after He had shown you that which you love. Among you are some who desire this world, and among you are some who desire the Hereafter. Then he turned you back from them [defeated] that He might test you. And He has already forgiven you, and Allah is the possessor of bounty for the believers.
• 6:16 · Al-An'amيُصْرَفْ is avertedHe from whom it is averted that Day - [Allah] has granted him mercy. And that is the clear attainment.
• 7:47 · Al-A'rafصُرِفَتْ are turnedAnd when their eyes are turned toward the companions of the Fire, they say, "Our Lord, do not place us with the wrongdoing people."
• 7:146 · Al-A'rafسَأَصْرِفُ I will turn awayI will turn away from My signs those who are arrogant upon the earth without right; and if they should see every sign, they will not believe in it. And if they see the way of consciousness, they will not adopt it as a way; but if they see the way of error, they will adopt it as a way. That is because they have denied Our signs and they were heedless of them.
• 9:127 · At-Tawbahصَرَفَ Allah has turned awayAnd whenever a surah is revealed, they look at each other, [saying], "Does anyone see you?" and then they dismiss themselves. Allah has dismissed their hearts because they are a people who do not understand.
• 10:32 · Yunusتُصْرَفُونَ (are) you turned awayFor that is Allah, your Lord, the Truth. And what can be beyond truth except error? So how are you averted?
• 12:24 · Yusufلِنَصْرِفَ that We might avertAnd she certainly determined [to seduce] him, and he would have inclined to her had he not seen the proof of his Lord. And thus [it was] that We should avert from him evil and immorality. Indeed, he was of Our chosen servants.
• 12:33 · Yusufتَصْرِفْ You turn awayHe said, "My Lord, prison is more to my liking than that to which they invite me. And if You do not avert from me their plan, I might incline toward them and [thus] be of the ignorant."
• 12:34 · Yusufفَصَرَفَ and turned awaySo his Lord responded to him and averted from him their plan. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
• 24:43 · An-Nurوَيَصْرِفُهُۥ and averts itDo you not see that Allah drives clouds? Then He brings them together, then He makes them into a mass, and you see the rain emerge from within it. And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail, and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lightening almost takes away the eyesight.
• 25:65 · Al-Furqanٱصْرِفْ AvertAnd those who say, "Our Lord, avert from us the punishment of Hell. Indeed, its punishment is ever adhering;
• 39:6 · Az-Zumarتُصْرَفُونَ are you turning awayHe created you from one soul. Then He made from it its mate, and He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs dominion. There is no deity except Him, so how are you averted?
• 40:69 · Ghafirيُصْرَفُونَ they are turned awayDo you not consider those who dispute concerning the signs of Allah - how are they averted?
• 46:29 · Al-Ahqafصَرَفْنَآ We directedAnd [mention, O Muhammad], when We directed to you a few of the jinn, listening to the Qur'an. And when they attended it, they said, "Listen quietly." And when it was concluded, they went back to their people as warners.

صَرَّفْ 10 times

• 6:46 · Al-An'amنُصَرِّفُ We explainSay, "Have you considered: if Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and set a seal upon your hearts, which deity other than Allah could bring them [back] to you?" Look how we diversify the verses; then they [still] turn away.
• 6:65 · Al-An'amنُصَرِّفُ We explainSay, "He is the [one] Able to send upon you affliction from above you or from beneath your feet or to confuse you [so you become] sects and make you taste the violence of one another." Look how We diversify the signs that they might understand.
• 6:105 · Al-An'amنُصَرِّفُ We explainAnd thus do We diversify the verses so the disbelievers will say, "You have studied," and so We may make the Qur'an clear for a people who know.
• 7:58 · Al-A'rafنُصَرِّفُ We explainAnd the good land - its vegetation emerges by permission of its Lord; but that which is bad - nothing emerges except sparsely, with difficulty. Thus do We diversify the signs for a people who are grateful.
• 17:41 · Al-Israصَرَّفْنَا We have explainedAnd We have certainly diversified [the contents] in this Qur'an that mankind may be reminded, but it does not increase the disbelievers except in aversion.
• 17:89 · Al-Israصَرَّفْنَا We have explainedAnd We have certainly diversified for the people in this Qur'an from every [kind] of example, but most of the people refused [anything] except disbelief.
• 18:54 · Al-Kahfصَرَّفْنَا We have explainedAnd We have certainly diversified in this Qur'an for the people from every [kind of] example; but man has ever been, most of anything, [prone to] dispute.
• 20:113 · Ta-Haوَصَرَّفْنَا and We have explainedAnd thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid [sin] or it would cause them remembrance.
• 25:50 · Al-Furqanصَرَّفْنَـٰهُ We have distributed itAnd We have certainly distributed it among them that they might be reminded, but most of the people refuse except disbelief.
• 46:27 · Al-Ahqafوَصَرَّفْنَا and We have diversifiedAnd We have already destroyed what surrounds you of [those] cities, and We have diversified the signs [or verses] that perhaps they might return [from disbelief].

تَصْرِيف 2 times

• 2:164 · Al-Baqarahوَتَصْرِيفِ and directingIndeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the [great] ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth are signs for a people who use reason.
• 45:5 · Al-Jathiyahوَتَصْرِيفِ and (in) directingAnd [in] the alternation of night and day and [in] what Allah sends down from the sky of provision and gives life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and [in His] directing of the winds are signs for a people who reason.

انصَرَفُ 1 time

• 9:127 · At-Tawbahٱنصَرَفُوا۟ ۚ they turn awayAnd whenever a surah is revealed, they look at each other, [saying], "Does anyone see you?" and then they dismiss themselves. Allah has dismissed their hearts because they are a people who do not understand.

صَرْف 1 time

• 25:19 · Al-Furqanصَرْفًۭا (to) avertSo they will deny you, [disbelievers], in what you say, and you cannot avert [punishment] or [find] help. And whoever commits injustice among you - We will make him taste a great punishment.

مَصْرُوف 1 time

• 11:8 · Hudمَصْرُوفًا (will be) avertedAnd if We hold back from them the punishment for a limited time, they will surely say, "What detains it?" Unquestionably, on the Day it comes to them, it will not be averted from them, and they will be enveloped by what they used to ridicule.

مَصْرِف 1 time

• 18:53 · Al-Kahfمَصْرِفًۭا a way of escapeAnd the criminals will see the Fire and will be certain that they are to fall therein. And they will not find from it a way elsewhere.

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.